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I've been privately and tactfully advised that all those "problematic
hybrids" are normal first-winter Western Gulls. I had somehow got it in my
head that all first winter Westerns were nearly uniformly dark gray, like
this guy http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/WesternGull1W.jpg
so that any substantially light plumage indicated some GWGU background.

Live and learn... I promise to continue the entertaining series of really
dumb questions about immature gulls.

Tom Grey
http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41


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